DOI Heft:
No. 386 (May 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0300
BUDAPEST
BUDAPEST. — Among all the rep- inn-keeper, was a very queer person, the
resentatives of modern Hungarian friend and protector of all sorts of strange
painting Gyula Rudnay gives the most people, such as wandering actors, gipsy
complete expression of the real peculiar- musicians and other outcasts of life. Rud-
ities of a thoroughly national art: the nay was only in his thirteenth year when
psycho-ethnical qualities of his people, the father died, leaving his family in the
that special Hungarian temperament which greatest poverty. His heroic mother
finds its foremost manifestation in the brought him up together with her six other
poems of Petofi, in the paintings of children. After years of hard struggles and
Munkacsy, and in the music of Liszt, privations, he came to.Munich, where he
Rudnay's paintings are the products of became a pupil of Simon Hollosy, the
this temperament. They reflect its im- master and leading light of the most im-
petuous, sometimes even violent vitality, portant group of Hungarian painters known
its exultation triumphing over the depth under the name of " Group of Nagy-
of melancholy, or its depression and dole- banya." He spent his whole youth and
ful complaints. His imagination renders a greater part of his manhood in dire
with equal facility the images of riches or poverty, and up to 1919 he was known
poverty, the thronging crowds of biblical in his own country only by a small circle
or historical scenes, or the wistful lyricism of the initiated. Then he became at
of a spring landscape just shaking off the once well-known through a collective
spell of winter. The range of his subjects exhibition. He met with great success in
is enormous. Its limits are still unknown, Holland and the Scandinavian countries,
because his chief life-work can still be and in 1924 he was awarded the great Gold
expected. He is a master of landscape- Medal of the Vienna Kiinstlerhaus. He
painting as well as of human and animal has been appointed a teacher at the
figures. The forcefulness of colours is his Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and had
strongest feature. 0001) also a very distinguished career as a peda-
His life was rich in events. He was born gogue of Arts. He is now actually in the
in 1878 in Upper Hungary from a noble full strength of his creative power. ^
but impoverished family. His father, an Arthur Elek.
" THE ARRIVAL OF THE VIRGIN MARY AT
THE FEAST OF CANA." BY GYULA RUDNAY
294
BUDAPEST. — Among all the rep- inn-keeper, was a very queer person, the
resentatives of modern Hungarian friend and protector of all sorts of strange
painting Gyula Rudnay gives the most people, such as wandering actors, gipsy
complete expression of the real peculiar- musicians and other outcasts of life. Rud-
ities of a thoroughly national art: the nay was only in his thirteenth year when
psycho-ethnical qualities of his people, the father died, leaving his family in the
that special Hungarian temperament which greatest poverty. His heroic mother
finds its foremost manifestation in the brought him up together with her six other
poems of Petofi, in the paintings of children. After years of hard struggles and
Munkacsy, and in the music of Liszt, privations, he came to.Munich, where he
Rudnay's paintings are the products of became a pupil of Simon Hollosy, the
this temperament. They reflect its im- master and leading light of the most im-
petuous, sometimes even violent vitality, portant group of Hungarian painters known
its exultation triumphing over the depth under the name of " Group of Nagy-
of melancholy, or its depression and dole- banya." He spent his whole youth and
ful complaints. His imagination renders a greater part of his manhood in dire
with equal facility the images of riches or poverty, and up to 1919 he was known
poverty, the thronging crowds of biblical in his own country only by a small circle
or historical scenes, or the wistful lyricism of the initiated. Then he became at
of a spring landscape just shaking off the once well-known through a collective
spell of winter. The range of his subjects exhibition. He met with great success in
is enormous. Its limits are still unknown, Holland and the Scandinavian countries,
because his chief life-work can still be and in 1924 he was awarded the great Gold
expected. He is a master of landscape- Medal of the Vienna Kiinstlerhaus. He
painting as well as of human and animal has been appointed a teacher at the
figures. The forcefulness of colours is his Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and had
strongest feature. 0001) also a very distinguished career as a peda-
His life was rich in events. He was born gogue of Arts. He is now actually in the
in 1878 in Upper Hungary from a noble full strength of his creative power. ^
but impoverished family. His father, an Arthur Elek.
" THE ARRIVAL OF THE VIRGIN MARY AT
THE FEAST OF CANA." BY GYULA RUDNAY
294